NEWS
December 2024 : Tykus Tykus
January 2023 : New film “La Toulousaine”
CD RELEASES
FOLKSONGS – TOUR DU MONDE (2024)
Our new album is out. Link to buy : https://www.helloasso.com/associations/association-pour-la-promotion-de-la-maitrise-de-toulouse-appmt/boutiques/ventes-en-ligne-cd-folksong
Presentation film :
MARTIN-DURUFLÉ (2023)
Our latest CD is receiving rave reviews : 5 stars in Choir and Organ (UK), 4 stars in BBC Music (UK), 9/10 for interpretation from Crescendo (Belgium) and 5 stars from Orgelnieuws (Netherlands). Available on all platforms. You can watch a presentation here:
REQUIEM (2020)
Our recording of Music for a Royal Spanish Funeral was recorded in 2019 with the Sacqueboutiers, ensemble of early wind instruments. The central work is Victoria’s Requiem, joined by unknown works by Romero, Patiño and Marqués. See the discography page for the reviews! You can watch a presentation here:
SLAVA ! (2017)
The choir’s CD Slava ! has received glowing reviews including in the USA (Amercian Record Guide: “this choir is wonderful and deserves the accolades showered on it… they display a freshness and rhythmic alacrity that is uncommon.”) and Great Britain (Organists’ Review: “A thoroughly engaging and uplifting recording in every way. If I could give this six stars, I would!”)
NOËL FRANÇAIS
The choir’s CD Noël Français has received 5 Diapasons in France from Diapason Magazine, who described the choir as the “revelation of the Maîtrise world of recent years” and four stars in the BBC Music Magazine, who called it an “utter pleasure”. The CD was also one of the ‘essential releases’ of the week in the Sunday Times and the featured CD for the programme ‘Sacrées Musiques’ on France Musique.
- Saturday 5th April, 18h30 Cathédrale Saint Jean-Baptiste, Perpignan
“Renaissances” : La Maîtrise de Toulouse, directed by Mark Opstad presents a programme of unaccompanied sacred music from plainchant to the present day. Grouped in pairs, each couple of pieces presents contrasting styles and periods expressing the same text.
Concert as part of the Festival de Musique Sacrée de Perpignan. Free entry https://www.calameo.com/read/005472494543fe60ca922?view=book&page=1
- Friday 25th April, 20h Halle aux Grains, Toulouse
Pergolesi Stabat Mater with the Orchestre du Capitole, directed by Ton Koopman
Information and reservations: https://onct.toulouse.fr/agenda/ton-koopman/
- Sunday 4th May, 17h Abbaye de Loc Dieu (12)
Concert of the lower voices of the Maîtrise : French and English music by Byrd, Bouzignac, Elgar, Poulenc, De Severac and the anonymous manuscript of the Pénitents Noirs de Villefranche de Rouergue (18th century)
Information and reservation : https://www.helloasso.com/associations/le-gerfaut/evenements/concert-maitrise-de-toulouse-voix-d-hommes